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Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language) Book

Discusses how new ways of thinking about language have uncovered previously 'legitimated' linguistic and social inequalities.Read More

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  • Book Description

    Argues that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how apparently objective differences between languages legitimated social inequalities. The authors' view is that savages and ancients were judged together because they used language similarly (irrational, poetic), in contrast to modern Europeans, who required disciplined language for use in scientific, philosophical and legal projects.

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    This study asserts that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how differences between languages legitimated social inequalities. It claims that savages and ancients were judged alike because they used language similarly, in contrast to modern Europeans who used disciplined language in scientific, philosophical and legal projects.

  • 0521008972
  • 9780521008976
  • Richard Bauman, Charles L. Briggs
  • 3 July 2003
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 376
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